iPhone 2.0 to give Mail mass management, PowerPoint viewer

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Okay, sure, we learned some great things at our live coverage of Apple's iPhone SDK event, but Apple will inevitably add new features to some of the iPhone's standard apps as well. Though none of those apps were the focus of Jobs' presentation yesterday, the press release Apple sent out on iPhone 2.0 software tacked on a few juicy new features for Mail, arguably one of the device's most... "unfinished" applications.

Besides the major features announced today for iPhone 2.0, Mail will be able to view PowerPoint presentations, just like it can view—but not edit (yet)—Word documents and Excel spreadsheets. In answer to standing complaints about Mail's UI and lack of arguably basic features, the forthcoming iPhone Mail will also gain mass delete and move features for messages.

There's no mention of other requested features like a unified inbox (like Mail in Mac OS X has), but this is at least a start.